Switch Migration - Looking for confirmation (HPUX and AIX)

I'm looking for confirmation on something I'm planning to do for my Brocade customer.

They have an existing 24K director. They want to migrate to a new DCX environment.

They have a mix of AIX and HPUX in their environment.

They would rather not deal with the pathing changes in those OS environments as they have over 100 servers, and have limited manpower to deal with it.

I've managed to install the blades into DCX slots, such that the PID (and thus the Domain ID) will match the existing 24k.

As far as I can tell, this will enable me to be able to plug the storage ports into switch ports with matching PIDs, and as such the Hardware path should not change.

As far as the OS's are concerned, it would appear to be a path failure and recovery.

Can anyone confirm that they've tried this? I've seen lots of documentation that warns against the Domain ID and/or PID changes for HPUX and AIX... so my assumption is that if they remain the same, that I should be able to move forward with minimal issues.

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